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CHERT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chert mean?
• CHERT (noun)
The noun CHERT has 1 sense:
1. variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz
Familiarity information: CHERT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("chert" is a kind of...):
silica; silicon dioxide; silicon oxide (a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chert"):
taconite (a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore)
Derivation:
cherty (resembling or containing chert)
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